Terradot

Last week was a memorable day for us in São Paulo – we officially inaugurated our Brazilian HQ! 🎉 It's a stunning space with plenty of room for visitors and even our own private garden – perfect for some ERW experimentation! 🌱 On our first day, we personalized the office with meaningful items. Highlights include hammocks as art, the charm of Brazilian “Borogodó,” and very special rocks! We’re excited for the in-person journey ahead and to welcome all our cherished partners in the coming weeks! 🌍✨ #TeamCulture #Sustainability #ERW #Terradot #hiring

Incredibly excited to announce Terradot's deal with Microsoft! This is a big one: 🔎 The most comprehensive scientific monitoring ever implemented at a commercial ERW site 📈 12,000 tons of removal in 2026-2029 ✅ Designed to build trust & confidence in current ERW MRV approaches 🔜 Data enabling future, low-cost MRV approaches A massive thank you to all who have made this moment possible - Katie Sierks Michael Berger Brian Marrs Melanie Nakagawa Erika Basham Julia Marisa Sekula James Kanoff Scott Fendorf Shawn Benner Connor Sendel Ashwin Kishen - and many, many more! Time to build! 🪨 🚀 https://lnkd.in/e3TUx9Mr

Incredibly excited to announce Terradot's deal with Microsoft! This is a big one: 🔎 The most comprehensive scientific monitoring ever implemented at a commercial ERW site 📈 12,000 tons of removal in 2026-2029 ✅ Designed to build trust & confidence in current ERW MRV approaches 🔜 Data enabling future, low-cost MRV approaches A massive thank you to all who have made this moment possible - Katie Sierks Michael Berger Brian Marrs Melanie Nakagawa Erika Basham Julia Marisa Sekula James Kanoff Scott Fendorf Shawn Benner Connor Sendel Ashwin Kishen - and many, many more! Time to build! 🪨 🚀 https://lnkd.in/e3TUx9Mr

🌍Terradot Goes to the Amazon: Building a team that’s all in 🌿 Last month, we asked our team to meet us on the Tapajós River in the Brazilian Amazon— to embark on riverboats without service and to sleep in hammocks just inches apart from one another. We went on this trip to reinforce our commitment to two things: our mission and each other. Scaling Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) to gigaton impact isn’t easy. Our day-to-day work demands collaboration across disciplines, geographies, and established sectors to solve complex challenges. All great missions come with great challenges—something well understood by the Indigenous communities we spent time with and our trip guides at Brigada de Alter, who tirelessly fight for the survival of the world’s most biodiverse rainforest. This trip was an opportunity to take a page from their book and to understand that we are all bound by the same mission. As Renato Rodrigues (whose first official day at Terradot was on our offsite) put it, "Starting my journey at Terradot with an offsite in the heart of the Amazon was truly special. Navigating the Tapajós River alongside such an inspiring team was the perfect way to immerse myself in the company’s culture, align with its vision and experience firsthand the passion that drives our mission—I’m excited to be part of this journey and look forward to growing with the team for a long time!" Want to be part of this mission? We’re hiring. #Terradot #ClimateTech #CompanyCulture #Hiring Brigada de Incêndio Florestal Alter do Chão

Big changes are made by those willing to make big bets. Google has made one of the biggest bets in the ERW space. Thank you Randy Spock, Reilly O'Hara, Emily Ma and the entire Google team for your vision to advance the science and scale the potential of Enhanced Rock Weathering as a global climate solution. This collaboration, born out of the Frontier coalition, is a significant step in that mission, and a testament to the way that Frontier’s AMC is paving the way for the wider market. Check out Google’s blog to learn more about our partnership and the important work ahead! https://lnkd.in/grVPg65J

Before a market exists, someone has to go first. We’re thrilled to have Frontier as our first large-scale carbon removal buyer with a $27 million dollar purchase, helping us take critical steps toward near-term, high-integrity, and affordable carbon removal. This collaboration is validating the science behind Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) and accelerating its deployment to remove 90,000 tons of CO₂ by 2029 in Brazil—one of the most promising regions for ERW. Thank you, Frontier, for believing in us and leading the way. Together, we’re proving what’s possible. Check out Frontier’s blog to learn more about our partnership! 🌍 Frontier has facilitated purchases on behalf of Frontier founding members Stripe, Google, Shopify, and McKinsey & Company Sustainability as well as Autodesk, H&M Group, Workday, and Salesforce. Also, Aledade Inc, Canva, Match Group, Samsara, SKIMS, Skyscanner, WISE, and Zendesk have purchased via Watershed's partnership with Frontier Judy Savitskaya, Jane Flegal, Zeke Hausfather, Joanna Klitzke, Hannah Bebbington, Nan Ransohoff, Andrew Shea, Florian Maganza, Molly Niffenegger #CarbonRemoval #EnhancedRockWeathering #ClimateTech #CDR #Frontier #Terradot

Today, we’re excited to officially launch Terradot with $58.2M in funding! We’re transforming Earth’s most powerful natural carbon removal process—silicate rock weathering—into a scalable climate solution through Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). 🌍 Why we’re excited: $58.2M in funding led by John Doerr, joined by Sheryl Sandberg & Tom Bernthal, George Roberts, Microsoft's Climate Innovation Fund, Google, Cisco Foundation, Kleiner Perkins, Floodgate, Acre Venture Partners, Gigascale Capital, Valor Capital Group, Ponderosa Ventures and others. Nearly 300,000 tonnes of carbon removal sold, including a $27M purchase by Stripe's Frontier Climate buyers for 90,000 tonnes and Frontier member Google’s largest-ever single CDR purchase—200,000 tonnes. Starting in Brazil, an optimal location thanks to its tropical climate, agricultural scale, and clean energy grid. We believe ERW has the greatest potential to deliver gigaton-scale, permanent carbon removal this decade. But achieving that potential will be far harder than most realize. That’s why we built Terradot: to advance the hard science and build the technology required to activate the thousands of existing silicate rock quarries worldwide into scalable CDR hubs. Backed by the world’s strongest coalition—spanning industry, academia, and government—we’re taking a bold bet on unlocking ERW’s massive potential. The road ahead won’t be easy: millions of soil samples, snake-filled fields, and no guarantees of success await. The stakes couldn’t be higher. 🚀 This is just the beginning. If you’re a scientist pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, an engineer ready to build, or an operator obsessed with execution—come join us. Let’s work together to stabilize Earth’s climate. 🔗 Join Us: https://lnkd.in/gm-7gCEf 🔗 Google’s Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/grVPg65J 🔗 Frontier’s Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/gG--y6xn 🔗 Bloomberg: https://lnkd.in/gHBMqsb2 🔗 Brazil Coverage: https://lnkd.in/gjBQS6rQ #ClimateTech #CarbonRemoval #EnhancedRockWeathering #Terradot #ClimateSolutions #CDR

Meet 16 home-grown and international start-ups solving the biggest issues for the South American agri-food system showcasing their solutions at #WorldAgriTech South America: https://lnkd.in/eukqTtVx These pioneers behind ready-to-scale solutions are developing: 🍄 Fungicides for tropical crops 🌱 Inoculated seeds designed for extreme environments 🛰️ dMRV platforms de-risking nature investments 🦠 AI-powered outbreak forecasting Cálice CroBio® Elytron Effatha Agro LandPrint metaBIX Biotech Nera Nunatak Biotech Nutristrahl Sensix Surefarming SpaceAG Global Terradot Unibaio Vexxel VM Agritech Inc.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending Stanford's Scaling Sustainability Innovation, an event hosted by the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and Stanford University Graduate School of Business. The event showcased the brilliance of numerous talents who are leveraging cutting-edge technologies to combat the climate crisis. Here are some of the remarkable start-ups that presented their innovative solutions: C-Zero - Produces hydrogen from natural gas, with solid carbon as a byproduct - I just loved this idea! It seems perfect for O&G companies! Fourier - Makes modular electrolyzers that scale H2 generation to any size Jinetics Inc. - Generators that supply 80% more energy and 50% less carbon using a coupled fuel cell Vaulted Deep - Geologic sequestration of organic waste for permanent carbon removal Ebb Carbon - Removes CO2 from the air by increasing alkalinity of sea water Blue Planet - Does CO2 sequestration from any source through mineralization and turns it into building materials Boomitra - Uses AI and satellite images to assess soil carbon credits across the globe Working Trees - Promotes agroforestry as a nature-based solution by connecting companies to farmers and by supplying an app that makes monitoring the trees much cheaper for reporting purposes Circularity Fuels - makes fuels from CO2 air + renewable energy Terradot - removes carbon from the air using enhanced rock weathering Congratulations to all the entrepreneurs and Stanford University for promoting this event!